Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Interview

If you like teen/frat-boy humor, you’ll thoroughly enjoy The
Interview.

And, having been both a teen and, for a while, a frat-boy,
I found it, for the most part, hilarious.

Story Writers/Directors/Producers Seth Rogen and Evan
Goldberg, along with Screen Writer Dan Sterling, have created an outlandish
film that lives up to the international uproar it has caused.

Rogen and James Franco are at their best as the Producer
and TV Host, who are invited to interview Dictator Kim Jong-un, and Lizzy
Caplan as the CIA Chief and Diana Bang as North Korea’s PR Spokesperson are
excellent in the key female roles.

I feel that, if the production team had channeled their
inner Mike Myers for a more Austin Powersish approach to the end
battles, even little Kim might have gotten a kick out of this satire on him.Or, maybe not.

In any case, if you’re not worried about your theater
being attacked and aren’t too squeamish, I think you’ll have a lot of fun
watching The Interview and getting to know the ballsy independent
theater in your area.I’m sure it
usually has a lot of other good fare you may be missing by just going to the
major theaters.

About Me

Brian Porzak: I am a cinephile who likes to view films with a live audience. My taste runs the gamut, including indies, studio films, foreign films and most all genres. Because I see so many films, friends often ask me what to see. So, I thought I'd blog about what is worth seeing or not. As a writer/filmmaker myself, I hope to give a more uplifting perspective than the typical critic. Filmmaking is tremendously difficult. Just because some problems might exist in a particular work does not, necessarily, destroy its enjoyability and I think that is necessary to point out to would-be viewers.
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